Call IV
Find here completed projects from Call IV in 2008.
The call aimed to support small-scale projects (up to 5,000 euros) intended to document (cases of) discrimination, hate crimes and other human rights violations committed on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. Priority areas of the call were: hate crimes and hate speech (including in media), brutalities of law-enforcement authorities, legal position of LGBT people in an eligible country, freedom of assembly and association.
Seven projects had been supported within this call in Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, and Ukraine.
The information contained in the documentation reports has subsequently been used by ILGA-Europe in its lobbying activities with the European institutions: European Union, Council of Europe and the OSCE.
Hungary: Social exclusion of LGBT people of Hungary – Dissemination
Name of the implementing organisation: Háttér Support Society for LGBT People in Hungary
Contact information:
Address: H-1132 Budapest, Csanády u. 4/B
Email: hatter@hatter.hu
Phone: 1-3292670
Contact person: László Mocsonaki
Grant amount: EUR 5000
Planned period of implementation: March 1 - August 31, 2008
Summary
The main goal is to disseminate the findings of the first national research project on the Social exclusion of LGBT people in Hungary. The empirical base of the research was a quantitative survey targeting LGBT people (N=1122) and 150 accounts of personal experiences of discrimination. Our plan is to produce two types of publication on the basis of our final report (a Hungarian booklet and another one with an English translation) and to use them for advocacy purposes. We want to distribute the already collected data and analysis to Hungarian decision makers, teachers’ training institutions and public libraries in order to raise awareness.
Latvia: Publication of Homophobic Speech Monitoring Results
Name of implementing organisation: Alliance of LGBT and their friends "Mozaika"
Contact information:
e-mail: office@mozaika.lv
Contact person: Linda Freimane
Grant amount: EUR 5000
Period of implementation: January - March 2008
Summary
The purpose of the advocacy and dissemination project is to publish the report on Hate Speech Monitoring, produced with ILGA-Europe’s Fund support by Mozaika in 2006. The report was ready and translated into English when Mozaika applied for another grant. The publication (both in Latvian and English) serves now as a basis for advocacy campaign drawing attention to the problems of hate speech directed against LGBT people by politicians and journalists.
- Project Report
- Homophobic Speech in Latvia: Monitoring the Politicians
- Homofobiska Runa Latvija: Politiku Monitorings
Malta: Survey on Discrimination on the Grounds of Sexual Orientation in Malta
Name of the implementing organisation: Malta Gay Rights Movement
Contact information:
Address: 32, Parish Street, Mosta MST 2021
Phone: +356 21430006
Email: mgrm@maltagayrights.org
Contact person: Marisa Xuereb
Grant amount: EUR 3345
Planned period of implementation: March - December 2008
Summary
The project will consist of a survey on discrimination, harassment and violence against gay men, lesbians and bisexuals in Maltese society. The survey will be run through a web-based facility and its results will be documented in a report that will make an assessment of the current situation and compare results with those of a similar survey held in 2002. The report will be published in electronic format and made available through the MGRM website. A summary of the report will also be made available in print and distributed at a follow-up workshop and at meetings with policymakers.
Poland: Publication of the report: Social situation of bisexual and homosexual persons in Poland
Name of the implementing organisation: Campaign against Homophobia (KPH)
Contact information:
Address : Żelazna 68 00-866,
e-mail : zarzad@kampania.org.pl
phone : +48 603 371 950
Contact person: Marta Abramowicz
Grant amount: EUR 5000
Planned period of implementation: November – December 2007
Summary
The project aims to publish the result of human rights violation documentation undertaken in previous years (2005 and 2006).
Portugal: TRANSformation
Name of the implementing organisation: Associação ILGA Portugal
Contact information:
Address: Centro LGBT, Rua de S. Lázaro, 88, 1150-333 Lisboa
Phone: +351 21 887 39 18
Fax: +351 21 887 39 22
Email: ilga-portugal@ilga.org
Contact person: Paulo Côrte-Real, Board Member
Grant amount: EUR 4930
Planned period of implementation: January – December 2008
Summary
Through this project, we intend to gather facts on human rights violations based on gender identity in Portugal and present an overview of the social, legal and medical situation of transsexual persons. We then intend to make this information available to policymakers and to use it as an advocacy tool to help ensure the access of transsexual persons to health care, education, employment and social protection.
Serbia: Discrimination in Ordinations
Name of the implementing organisation: DEVE
Contact information:
Address: Katiceva 2, 11000 Beograd, Serbia
Email: devebgd@yahoo.com
Phone: +381 11 2657 426
Grant amount: EUR 4960
Period of implementation: January – June 2008
Summary
The project researched and collected the stories of discrimination in gynaecology practice towards lesbian and bisexual women based on sexual orientation and gender expression. Through personal interviews and further data classification the project aimed to create well documented information useful for further advocacy.
Ukraine: LGB Human Rights Campaign in the South of Ukraine in the South of Ukraine
Name of the implementing organisation: Nikolaev Association of Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals, “LiGA”
Contact information:
Address: Ukraine, Nikolaev, 54003, PO Box 189
Email : liga@sp.mk.ua
Phone:+380512 59-49-00
Fax: +380512 35-81-42
Contact person: Oleg Alyokhin, Chairman of Board, NA GLB “LiGA”
Grant amount: EUR 5000
Planned period of implementation: March – August 2008
Summary
The project is meant for the generation of the information reflecting the social, political and legal situation of sexual minorities in the South of Ukraine. Conducting a questionnaire among representatives of LGB community, analysing articles in mass media on the subject and documenting cases of human rights violations based on sexual orientation we will be able to define the main problems of LGBT people. The goal is the development of a new advocacy strategy for the association for lobbying for changes in the situation of LGB people at the regional and national levels.